LOS ANGELES— The Broad announced today that collection artists Ericka Beckman, Mark Bradford and Sharon Lockhart will be featured in the museum’s popular Un-Private Collection series in August. The Broad launched The Un-Private Collection series in September 2013, before the museum opened, to present public conversations with cultural leaders and influential contemporary artists in the Broad collection.
The next program, taking place in the Oculus Hall at The Broad on Thursday, August 3, pairs Ericka Beckman with visual artist Matt Mullican. Both Beckman and Mullican attended California Institute for the Arts (CalArts) in the 1970s and consider Los Angeles to be important to the development of their art practice, and in particular, their years at CalArts. Their conversation will touch upon CalArts in the 1970’s—a period that produced many pioneering artists who played a vital role in shaping an identity for Southern California art and artists—and its place in the evolution of Beckman’s practice as they discuss her innovative video and installation works, in particular the work You The Better (1983/2015), currently on view in The Broad’s collection installation, Oracle. Tickets for this program are $12 and will be available beginning Thursday, June 29 at noon PT at thebroad.org.
On Wednesday, August 16, Los Angeles-based artists Sharon Lockhart and Mark Bradford, both featured in this year’s Venice Biennale, come together at the Orpheum Theatre downtown to discuss their creative practices and their focus on social justice through work with communities. Lockhart explores the human subjects of her artwork through workshops, film and photographs, and Bradford through the found materiality of his painting and activism. Through their respective practices, both seek to enrich the communities they engage in their processes. This conversation with curator, critic and art historian Katy Siegel will explore their work now at the Venice Biennale, in the American and Polish pavilions, and their related social activism projects. Bradford’s Across 110th St (2008) and Boreas(2007), and Lockhart’s Manioc Production: Elenilde Correa, Eliane Correa, Neide Correa, Mariana Correa, Denize Correa & Maria Correa, Santa Rita Community, River Aripuana, Brazil (1999) are currently on view in The Broad’s collection installation, Oracle. Tickets for this program are $15 and will be available beginning Thursday, June 29 at noon PT at thebroad.org.
